Pennsylvania Hospital to Install PillPick System

OCTOBER 01, 2006

The Good Samaritan Health System
will be installing Swisslog's PillPick system,
which automates the packaging,
storage, and dispensing of medications.
Once bulk medications are packaged in
bar-coded, unit-dose form, they are
stored in a high-density pharmacy robot
that can accommodate >26,000 unit
doses. The Lebanon, Pa-based hospital
has a >170-bed census and dispenses
~2500 unit doses daily.

When medicines are needed, unit
doses are pulled from the robot into a
unit that assembles patient-specific 24-hour medication orders on a flexible
PickRing. Each PickRing can be sorted
alphabetically or by order of administration.
A large bar-coded tag attached to
each ring specifies the drug, administration
time, and other patient-specific data.